Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> Perhaps it's a silly question but I'd like to know why it is the way it
> is:
>
> The 2.2, 2.4 and 2.5 kernels include a driver for the Comtrol Rocketport
> card (drivers/char/dtlk.c) which uses a local major (it does a
> "register_chrdev(0, "dtlk", &dtlk_fops);
> ). Is there a reason why it doesn't have a fixed major assigned?
Huh?:
dtlk.c - DoubleTalk PC driver for Linux
That doesn't look like the Comtrol Rocketport (drivers/char/rocket.c)
driver to me. : )
Meanwhile 2.4.19 Documentation/devices.txt shows:
46 char Comtrol Rocketport serial card
0 = /dev/ttyR0 First Rocketport port
1 = /dev/ttyR1 Second Rocketport port
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